Comments on: Glendale to vote on Coyotes lease tonight

By: ron05342

ron05342 — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:55:38 +0000

Those “warm-weather teams” as you call them have won 4 out of the last 8 Stanley Cups.

Brrrrrrr!!!

By: scrouch

scrouch — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:21:12 +0000

It’s situations like this that make it difficult to feel any sympathy for the NHLs position in CBA negotiations. Here’s a franchise that’s lost a ton of money every year since moving to Phoenix, that hasn’t had an owner for years, that someone wanted to move to a profitable location but the NHL blocked it, that requires a massive government subsidy even to be viable for someone to purchase, that the government doesn’t want to subsidize but think it’s the lesser of two evils since they’ve invested so much in the arena and area. And the NHL is going to look at this situation and make the concious decision to approve an ownership group that doesn’t have deep enough pockets to absorb the losses the team will have even with the new CBA and subsidies, and to keep the team in a market that’s guaranteed to not be able to keep up with league-wide revenue growth throughout the course of the next CBA and will soon be paying a very high percentage of their revenues into player salaries. At a time when there are markets availalble that could actually support a team and make money for the league.

If they were to look at the overall economic model of the leauge and have a team revenue sharing system that would accomodate their smaller markets, that would be one thing. But with what they’re looking to do in this CBA they’re knowingly setting up this franchise and the new ownership group to fail.

By: busdriver71

busdriver71 — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:38:18 +0000

This has been Bettman’s folly.

I wonder how much of the lockout is the result of Bettman stubbornly trying to save his warm weather teams from moving or folding. He and the owners wrote the last contract and now he realizes it doesn’t work with the small market teams. Instead of working with the players (remember cheaper tickets and a promise to work with the players?) to implement a strong revenue sharing plan, he decides to double-down and try and get the players to pay for his failed growth strategy.

Now it looks like his lockout may cost him hockey in Phoenix and a few small market teams.

By: darksidecowboy

darksidecowboy — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:37:08 +0000

It’s so refreshing that you can always rely on the PHX Coyotes ownership issues to be there for you, this hockey season….not so much – sigh